Saturday, June 20, 2026

Jada Pinkett Smith Book Turning Into a Sales Dud After an Initial Spike: Did She Turn Readers Against Her? UPDATED

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Jada Pinkett Smith has not shut up for days about her marriage, her life, and her sex life.

Before this past Tuesday’s publication of “Worthy,” her memoir, Pinkett Smith was everywhere squawking about her separation from Will Smith, the Oscars slap, and anything else she had on her mind.

When “Worthy” was finally published on Tuesday, it started at number 4 on Amazon’s best seller list. But the more Pinkett Smith kept sticking it to Will, the worse things got. Right now, the book has dropped to number 44. The Kindle version is around 2,700. At Barnes and Noble, it’s a similar story– number 173.

Have the potential fans turned against Jada? It seems so. Her campaign of negativity about Will, Chris Rock, and even Tupac Shakur, may have backfired. It’s instructive to see no reviews at all on the B&N site, and all one star reviews from Top Critics on Amazon.

I don’t think people want to read this book.

PS Will Britney Spears’s book face the same criticism when it arrives on Tuesday? We already know all the headlines from it. It’s number 1 on amazon in pre-sales but we’ll see how long before both of these tomes wind up featured in “Celebrity Autobiography,” the hit touring stage comedy.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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